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Definition of Constancies
1. constancy [n] - See also: constancy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constancies
Literary usage of Constancies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural Law: An Essay in Ethics by Edith Jemima Simcox (1878)
"... the patriarch and the chief—Law formulates the real relations inter se of the
subjects of law—Whence the feeling that natural constancies of relation ..."
2. The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology by Boris Sidis (1914)
"The majority of the propositions of natural science express such constancies of
connection: 'The tadpole is metamorphosed into a frog; chlorate of sodium ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1911)
"Of what sort "being" is, of how many kinds it consists, whether psychological,
electrical or some other kind of energy, and what constancies or equivalences ..."
4. Philosophy and the Social Problem by Will Durant (1917)
"What is the "heaven" of the ideas but a poet's way of saying that the constancies
observable in the relations among things are not identical with the things ..."
5. A Realistic Universe: An Introd. to Metaphysics by John Elof Boodin (1916)
"As we float in the sea of change, whether in mystic acquiescence or struggling
in practical earnestness with its forces, some constancies ..."
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